When I was in London recently I picked up a copy of Nigel Fosters Austrian Legal System and Laws, ISBN 1-85941-757-4
It cost £35 (amazon.de is offering it from 85.95 euros, which is worrying)
There is also Hausmaninger, The Austrian Legal System 3rd ed., ISBN 3-214-00289-9
I have only the first edition of Hausmaninger, dated 1998. That has less substantive law than Foster. But I don’t know if the later editions are fuller.
Maybe books on ‘smaller’ legal systems concentrate more on the framework. They expect you to know a lot about German-language civil law (and criminal law) from books about German law. That was the impression I got from a book on Canadian law, that it wanted to spare me the basics: Stephan Handschug, Einführung in das kanadische Recht, 2003, ISBN 3-406-50826-X – a lot about constitutional matters in there (perhaps the more so since the written constitution is relatively recent).
Hausmaninger, now that brings back memories. I enjoyed his lectures and seminars on Roman law …
I just ordered the book from amazon.co.uk – at £35 plus shipping (for the “grand total” of approx. £41. Much cheaper than amazon.de).
Yes. Most of my readers are in Germany, so I thought it was worth giving a warning as to the price. The amazon.de price for British and American is usually OK, but sometimes it’s cheaper to order from the publisher’s country. In this case, the euro price didn’t even appear to relate to a hardback version, which is what sometimes happens.